Re: [AMC-List] Forged steel AMC cranks

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me know when they are done, I'll buy a set just to hang on the wall if nothing else!
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Wayne E LaMothe <superglider@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> IIRC they got 418 out of the 327.  One of these days I will finish the
> adapter plates for mounting the torker on the 327. 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> Wayne & Lisa (Skeezix), Bolton Landing, NY,
> http://www.superglider.thinkhost.com/
> AMO#8454, 83 Eagle Limited Wagon, 82 SX/4, 258 auto
> 69 Ambo coupe, 401, M12, 66 Ambo 990 Wagon, 327,PW,PB,PS,posi,AM/FM,AC
> 88 Jeep J10 360, auto- a Real truck
> 2001 Cherokee, 2000 Chrysler Cirrus (both hers)
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 8:46:51 -0700 Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
> > I forget how much you can get, but the rod hitting the block or 
> > bottom of the piston is usually the limiting factor :]
> > Don't try this at home!
> > If I had the money I'd love to have a 327 cranck done so I could 
> > really replicate the Bill Kraft Rambler!
> > --
> > Mark Price
> > markprice242ATadelphia.net
> > Morgantown, WV
> > 
> > 
> > ---- Armand Eshleman <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > > I found a machinist that alters existing cranks by welding 
> > additional
> > > material onto the rod journals in a strategic location using a 
> > submerged arc
> > > method. Watched as he proceeded to drastically lengthen the stroke 
> > of a two
> > > cylinder tractor engine. It was almost half the rod journal 
> > diameter. The
> > > antique tractor pullers love their stroked engines too! He 
> > straightens the
> > > cranks and machines them too. He has an induction hardening 
> > machine. Not
> > > sure if that works on cranks. Any way I was impressed!
> > > Wondered how well this would do on an AMC forged 390 or 401 crank. 
> > How much
> > > displacement could a guy end up with??
> > > 
> > > Armand
> > > 
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